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Ward: T&T?s priming for championship

T&T?s Women?s under 20 midfielder Renae Ward and her teammates are being pushed to exceed beyond their usual limits as the Concacaf U-20 Women?s Championship opener with Haiti approaches. Both teams will clash at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva, on January 18.

Ward has described the current training camp under head coach Jamaal Shabazz as intense but designed in a way to ensure the players do not burn out but are instead ready to peak at the right time with three matches against Canada, Costa Rica and Haiti on the schedule.

?Right now the team is in camp and we are training really hard every day. Everyone is trying to improve individually and as a team. The competition is very stiff to get a place on the final team,? Ward told TTFA Media as the team continued with its training sessions at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, on Wednesday.

A few overseas-based players have been drafted into the training squad by Shabazz and Ward spoke about the impact since their inclusion on the overall preparations.

Ward, who guided Bishop Anstey Port-of-Spain to the 2017 Girls Intercol title, earning ?MVP? honours for her efforts said, ?The foreign players bring competition to the squad because they are here to take our spot.